Cities offered Eldon James incentives to stay put

Eldon James’ decision to relocate its headquarters to the Denver area this year has left Northern Colorado economic-development officials wondering just what more they could have done to keep the company here.

“It’s a little frustrating,” Fort Collins Economic Health Director Josh Birks said of the impending move.

Although it’s not a huge company – the maker of plastic tubing and fittings for the healthy care and food industries employs just 35 – it is an operation that people in both the private and public sectors like to point to in trumpeting the region’s attributes to companies thinking of relocating or expanding…